Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What occurred after the rally, however, was totally unexpected. Following the final speaker-- the university chaplain--students stormed the steps to College Hall and marched into the building. In a spontaneous burst of activity, a rally had turned itself into a sit-in, and the students said they meant business...
Palestine and Berkeley Patty Hearst heard the burst...
...coating of gibberellic acid is by no means the first attempt at chemical golf. In 1928 Samuel J. Bens of New York City took out patent #1,664,397 on a golf ball "with chemical pockets dotting the outer skin." When the ball impacted the pockets burst, releasing a miasma of ammonium chloride. This simple method of chemical detection would definitely be a boon to the golfer traipsing his way through a snow bank in search of the elusive pill...
...lends credence to the old saw that "quality players breed quality players." McLaughlin said he hoped the Crimson's staggering upset of Penn would persuade potential players to come to Harvard next year and set the recruiting cycle in motion. After last weekend's losses the Harvard basketball bubble burst but, as Jack Reardon, Harvard's athletic director noted, "it wasn't much of a bubble...
...produces not images but model people-androids without the electronic guts. Each plastic scalp is the sum of myriad transplants; thousands of strands of fuzz are pricked into the cold, immobile forearm; the pigment on the skin replicates flesh down to the very last pore, zit, shaving nick and burst vein, while every T shirt and pair of overalls displays exactly the right degree of grunge, wear and spattering. Consequently, the presence of these figures becomes almost hallucinatory. "Speaking likenesses" that cannot speak but cannot, at a glance, be readily told apart from their spectators, they lean against the Whitney...